Provides a set of lessons from a sector-wide, reform-based health program in Indonesia going through a process of decentralizing government services since 1999. Findings will feed into future higher-level evaluations.
This report examines the project's contribution to decentralization and deconcentration reforms in Cambodia as well as their contribution to the development of stronger governance and audit systems.
Validates the completion report's assessment of the project, which aimed to improve services delivered by line departments in Cambodia, to be better attuned to local needs and preferences. IED overall assessment: Successful
This paper explores the education sector for evidence of improved service delivery within the context of decentralization.
Procurement plans describe and update the procurement of major goods, works and consulting services either ongoing or expected to take place related to a project or program.
This document dated January 2014 is provided for the ADB project 46009-002 in Cambodia.
This paper shows that the decentralization policy even in a democratic system like in Indonesia is welfare-enhancing only for the developed regions, not for all.
The government secured support from ADB through a $113 million loan that sought to improve infrastructure for rural productivity in Bicol, Eastern Visayas, Mindanao, and the island provinces of Region IV.
The first paper in this policy brief examines two major aspects of decentralization: fiscal decentralization and the status of decentralization.
The second study examines various state finance commissions' (SFCs) performance and the reasons for their differential performance. It also indicates policy options for their improved functioning.
Norio Usui writes that as the decentralization process witnessed across Asia and the Pacific region has become an irreversible trend, a growing number of Asian Development Bank projects and technical assistance involve components of delivering services at the subnational level. This paper summarizes key conceptual issues of decentralization, and discusses major routes for decentralization to improve public services and address problems in implementing decentralization. The paper argues that decentralization can work only when it strengthens local accountability and when national and local governments are linked with clear rules. A particular focus of the paper is on fiscal dimensions of accountability between national and local governments, and desirable features of fiscal decentralization.
This paper discusses how governments can be more effective in using their relatively scarce resources to leverage more private sector financing become increasingly central to the provision of urban infrastructure.
